Elimination

Simplifying The Issue Of Time-Wasters

Monday, February 11th, 2008

First time here? If you would like to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Hilary Catherall, co-founder and the president of technology startup DOMITECH, L.L.C., a revolutionary web development company. […]

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Rethinking Time Management

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

Sometimes the basis for positive change in our lives comes from questioning or throwing out conventional assumptions or “rules of thumb”. The 4-Hour Workweek is a great example, where author Timothy Ferriss questions the so-called deferred life plan which we all know: work hard now and defer living your dreams until you retire. I would […]

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Scan & Toss

Monday, February 4th, 2008

When I was cleaning out my office, I ended up with a small pile of ticket stubs from sporting events I have attended throughout the years. When you think about it, these things have no real practical use. However for me, and I suspect many others, ticket stubs maintain some real sentimental value like a […]

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Outsourcing Update: Part 2

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

In a previous post I described my first attempt at outsourcing. I was diligently trying to ship some software programming work overseas. Please don’t tell Lou Dobbs! At the same time, I decided to test a theory: could I find better freelancers through programming forums instead of using popular outsourcing sites such as Elance.
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All The Things I Do

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

One idea that has really resonated with me lately is that we really should work to live, yet often we end up living to work. Unfulfilling work can consume so much of our time, leaving tired evenings and perhaps a few hours on the weekends to pursue our dreams - if we even have any […]

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Clutter

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

The 4-Hour Workweek credo describes the concept of elimination - eliminating or otherwise offloading the tasks that take up 80% of our time and yet add no, or only incremental value. It is not a matter of better organizing the time you spend on tasks (i.e. classic time management) but doing only the tasks that […]

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Menu Planner

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

My wife and I both enjoy cooking. In fact, we follow food and cooking shows such as America’s Test Kitchen and Good Eats.  We can make an entire event out of trying a new dish. It is therefore somewhat ironic that one of the major causes of stress in our household was figuring out what […]

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A Virtual Virtual Assistant

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

I have a new VA (virtual assistant) and her name is Sandy. I have her tasked with starting my day with a daily digest of the day’s appointments and activities. I have her set up and manage appointments, and remind me of them and other scheduled tasks just when I need to know. I have […]

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Voicemail Recording

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

After virtually challenging the Four Hour Trial man to hire a VA (virtual assistant), I thought I would jump into the 4-Hour Workweek world head first and change my voicemail recording (let’s face it, outsourcing is the easy part). Here is the script I used:
Hi, you have reached the desk of Brick Andrews. I am […]

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